Last week, Twitter finally unveiled a series of tools to help combat the rising tide of hate speech and harassment that has made the social-media platform so unwelcoming, both to new users and to anyone considering buying the unprofitable, $13 billion company. “What’s happened is, a lot of the bidders are looking at people with lots of followers and seeing the hatred,” Mad Money host Jim Cramerexplained last month on CNBC. “I know that the haters reduce the value of the company,” he added, noting that Twitter trolls were a primary reason Salesforce C.E.O. Marc Benioff walked away from a potential deal. Now, Twitter appears to be making moves to clean up its act. Its new toolbox gives users the option to mute conversations and keywords—including words, usernames, emoji, hashtags, and phrases—as well as a beefed-up system to report abuse. Twitter also introduces a new set of harassment guidelines, which it promptly used to ban several accounts associated with white nationalism and the so-called “alt right.” In a statement, Twitter noted that “The Twitter Rules prohibit targeted abuse and harassment, and we will suspend accounts that violate this policy.”

One of Twitter’s most voluble purveyors of online speech, however, was untouched by the purge. Former birther Donald Trump, now the president-elect, continues to shout each day from his digital soapbox, unleashing a wave of xenophobic and anti-Semitic replies with each tweet. While Trump has insisted that he will be “very restrained” on Twitter as president, the past week has seen him use his account to berate all manner of political enemies, from the cast of Hamilton (“highly overrated,” “terrible”) to Alec Baldwin (“stinks”), not to mention a perennial favorite, the “failing” and “nasty”New York Times. Other attacks have been harsher, and more personal, such as when Trump engaged in a months-long feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who he called “sick,” “crazy,” and a “bimbo,” fueling thousands of his supporters to harass and threaten her. When Kelly reported on rape allegations made against Trump by his ex-wife, Ivana, the billionaire reportedly called her and warned, “I almost unleashed my beautiful Twitter account on you, and I still may.” At one point, Kelly claims in her new book, the death threats being made against her got so bad that Bill Shine, then the senior executive vice president of programming at Fox News, called Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, who himself had retweeted a message saying “Let’s gut her,” and begged the campaign to lay off. “You’ve got to stop this,” Shine told Cohen, according to Kelly. “If Megyn Kelly gets killed, it’s not going to help your candidate.”

Kelly isn’t alone. According to The New York Times, Trump has used Twitter to insult or harass about 300 people, places, and things since declaring his candidacy in June 2015, many of them individual journalists, celebrities, and politicians. Nor has he strongly condemned the many people spreading hate in his name, on Twitter and elsewhere. All of which begs the question: Could Trump be suspended from Twitter?

Twitter wouldn’t issue a comment on an individual user account, but a spokesperson pointed us toward the company’s guidelines, which are said to apply to everyone. There are three main categories of rules that Twitter users agree to comply to, or else risk being kicked off the platform: content boundaries (things like trademark, copyright, and spreading graphic content); abusive behavior (violent threats, hateful conduct, and harassment); and spam. If Trump were to violate any of these rules based on his current patterns of behavior, it’s most likely it’d be the second category.

“We believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power, but that means little as an underlying philosophy if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up,” Twitter’s rules state. “In order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs, we do not tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.” Targeted harassment is what led to the removal of Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for the alt-right Web site Breitbart, who incited hate against Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones and directed his fans to her account, eventually driving her (temporarily) off of the platform. Twitter’s rules say it takes into account the following when considering whether an account should be suspended for harassment:

if a primary purpose of the reported account is to harass or send
abusive messages to others;

if the reported behavior is one-sided or includes threats;

if the reported account is inciting others to harass another account;
and

if the reported account is sending harassing messages to an account
from multiple accounts.

By these standards, Trump’s occasional tweets about people like NBC’s Katy Tur, who he has repeatedly singled out for harassment both online and on the campaign trail, or Megyn Kelly, don’t necessarily fit Twitter’s definition of harassment. Trump’s “primary purpose” online isn’t harassment—even if it sometimes seems otherwise—nor does it include explicit threats (notwithstanding Trump’s threat to “spill the beans” on Ted Cruz’s wife). Trump’s account regularly whips up racist, sexist, and otherwise bigoted responses, whether from bots (of which there are many) or alt-right fans, but it would likely be impossible in practice to hold Trump responsible.

The bar to ban Trump is, of course, absurdly high, now that he is about to become the nation’s next president, even if there were a case for his suspension. Still, it wouldn’t hurt Trump to reconsider the way he uses his digital megaphone. A new poll from Quinnipiac University, released Tuesday, found that 59 percent of voters think Trump should shut down his Twitter account. On that, the American people and Trump’s wife Melania can certainly agree.